Posts Tagged ‘himss’
Health IT Professionals Earn the Highest Salaries with Consulting Firms
Health IT professionals are still earning an average of six figures, with those employed by consulting firms earning the most, according to the 2015 HIMSS Compensation Survey. In its new survey of 1,900 people, the compensation survey found that those employed by consulting firms made an average of $140,971, and professionals at multihospital systems had […]
Read More >Healthcare IT Influencers: How to Be More Influential on Twitter
A few weeks ago, we introduced you to our list of the Top 50 Healthcare IT Influencers on Twitter, a compilation of the sharpest, most in-the-know healthcare IT experts Tweeting about the industry. These 50 individuals are hospital CIOs, health IT consultants, physicians, technology experts and healthcare professionals, authors, journalists and bloggers who will teach you about health IT community […]
Read More >Health IT Enables Course for Improved Patient Care
The 26th annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, unveiled at the 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago, reveals that 68% of the survey's 330 respondents believe health IT is successfully improving the health experience Triple Aim: boosting the patient experience, reducing the costs of healthcare and advancing population health outcomes. The Triple Aim, developed by the Institute for […]
Read More >The Best Tweets from HIMSS15
With more than 50 million impressions, 2,200 Tweets per hour by the middle of day three and 79,574 total Tweets by the last day (a new social media record for the conference), attendees at 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition were all a-twitter on Twitter about what the conference had to offer, from keynote speaker George W. Bush […]
Read More >10 Tips for First-Timers Attending HIMSS 2015
By this time next week, more than 38,000 healthcare IT professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors from around the world will have descended on Chicago for the 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, to discover the newest technologies, trends, and solutions in health IT. Held April 12-16 at the McCormick Center, HIMSS 2015 will focus on health IT […]
Read More >5 Health IT Hashtags to Follow
Supporters of ICD-10 will take to Twitter today to engage in hashtag advocacy for their cause. The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is promoting a Twitter rally using the hashtag #ICD10Matters to urge Congress to stick to the October 1 deadline for implementing the ICD-10 diagnostic code update. AHIMA claims a previous rally held earlier […]
Read More >Jersey Shore Reflections on Data Governance
Having returned recently from the NJ/Delaware HIMSS Fall meeting in Atlantic City, I am recalling multiple conversations and sidebars on the topic of data governance. But here’s the thing. To my knowledge, there wasn’t a single presentation on the topic. Now I admit I may have had a glass or two of Cabernet at the […]
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